Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows
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Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows
Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows
Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows
2007
Documentary
TV Movie
1h 17m
Martin Scorsese narrates this tribute to Val Lewton, the producer of a series of memorable low-budget horror films for RKO Studios. (imdb)

Directed by:

Kent Jones
Kent-Jones
10 total credits
Kent Jones has 10 credits at Criticker, including: Hitchcock/Truffaut, Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian and Diane

Writer:

Kent Jones
Kent-Jones
10 total credits
Kent Jones has 10 credits at Criticker, including: Hitchcock/Truffaut, Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian and Diane

Starring:

Elias Koteas
Elias-Koteas
74 total credits
Elias Koteas is a Canadian actor perhaps best known for his film portrayal of Casey Jones in the popular Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies and for the character Thomas Daggett in the American film The Prophecy. Koteas had a role in the Denzel Washington thriller Fallen as the demon-possessed serial killer Edgar Reese. He appeared in John Hughes' Some Kind of Wonderful, Atom Egoyan's The Adjuster, Exotica, Ararat... (wikipedia)
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Martin Scorsese
Martin-Scorsese
171 total credits
After serious deliberations about entering the priesthood - he entered a seminary in 1956 - Martin Scorsese opted to channel his passions into film. He graduated from NYU as a film major in 1964. Catching the eye of producer Roger Corman with his 1960s student films (including co-editing Woodstock (1970)), Scorsese directed the gritty exploiter Boxcar Bertha (1972). Mean Streets (1973) followed in 1973 and provided the benchmarks for the Scorsese style
,
Roger Corman
Roger-Corman
98 total credits
Roger Corman has 98 credits at Criticker, including: Little Shop of Horrors, Looney Tunes: Back in Action, The Little Shop of Horrors, The Masque of the Red Death and Pit and the Pendulum
,
Ann Carter
Ann-Carter
2 total credits
Ann Carter has 2 credits at Criticker, including: The Curse of the Cat People and Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows
,
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Kiyoshi-Kurosawa
94 total credits
Kiyoshi Kurosawa has 94 credits at Criticker, including: Cure, Pulse and Tokyo Sonata
,
Robert Wise
Robert-Wise
48 total credits
Robert Wise has 48 credits at Criticker, including: The Sound of Music, West Side Story, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, The Day the Earth Stood Still and The Haunting
,
Jacques Tourneur
Jacques-Tourneur
61 total credits
Jacques Tourneur has 61 credits at Criticker, including: Out of the Past, Cat People, I Walked with a Zombie, Night of the Demon and The Leopard Man
,
Val E. Lewton
Val-E-Lewton
1 total credit
Val E. Lewton has just 1 credit at Criticker: Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows

Genre:

Documentary

Country:

USA

Languages:

English, French, Japanese

Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows

2007
Documentary
TV Movie
1h 17m
Avg Percentile 60.03% from 33 total ratings

Ratings & Reviews

(33)
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Rated 17 Nov 2022
84
72nd
Gives fans exactly what they want but while I find Lewton's work interesting, it can also be dull/bait-and-swtich. So I tend to lose interest as arthouse types oversell some of this. One critic rightly notes that the slavery angle in I Walked W/ A Zombie is irrelevant to the main story, but paradoxically undercuts himself by claiming it's what the "underlying" story's really all about. The other problem is anyone who becomes interested in seeing the movies after this, will have seen many endings

Cast & Info

Directed by:

Kent Jones
Kent-Jones
10 total credits
Kent Jones has 10 credits at Criticker, including: Hitchcock/Truffaut, Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian and Diane

Writer:

Kent Jones
Kent-Jones
10 total credits
Kent Jones has 10 credits at Criticker, including: Hitchcock/Truffaut, Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian and Diane

Starring:

Elias Koteas
Elias-Koteas
74 total credits
Elias Koteas is a Canadian actor perhaps best known for his film portrayal of Casey Jones in the popular Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies and for the character Thomas Daggett in the American film The Prophecy. Koteas had a role in the Denzel Washington thriller Fallen as the demon-possessed serial killer Edgar Reese. He appeared in John Hughes' Some Kind of Wonderful, Atom Egoyan's The Adjuster, Exotica, Ararat... (wikipedia)
,
Martin Scorsese
Martin-Scorsese
171 total credits
After serious deliberations about entering the priesthood - he entered a seminary in 1956 - Martin Scorsese opted to channel his passions into film. He graduated from NYU as a film major in 1964. Catching the eye of producer Roger Corman with his 1960s student films (including co-editing Woodstock (1970)), Scorsese directed the gritty exploiter Boxcar Bertha (1972). Mean Streets (1973) followed in 1973 and provided the benchmarks for the Scorsese style
,
Roger Corman
Roger-Corman
98 total credits
Roger Corman has 98 credits at Criticker, including: Little Shop of Horrors, Looney Tunes: Back in Action, The Little Shop of Horrors, The Masque of the Red Death and Pit and the Pendulum
,
Ann Carter
Ann-Carter
2 total credits
Ann Carter has 2 credits at Criticker, including: The Curse of the Cat People and Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows
,
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Kiyoshi-Kurosawa
94 total credits
Kiyoshi Kurosawa has 94 credits at Criticker, including: Cure, Pulse and Tokyo Sonata
,
Robert Wise
Robert-Wise
48 total credits
Robert Wise has 48 credits at Criticker, including: The Sound of Music, West Side Story, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, The Day the Earth Stood Still and The Haunting
,
Jacques Tourneur
Jacques-Tourneur
61 total credits
Jacques Tourneur has 61 credits at Criticker, including: Out of the Past, Cat People, I Walked with a Zombie, Night of the Demon and The Leopard Man
,
Val E. Lewton
Val-E-Lewton
1 total credit
Val E. Lewton has just 1 credit at Criticker: Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows

Genre:

Documentary

Country:

USA

Languages:

English, French, Japanese
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